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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 53
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Isaiah speaks Messianically—Messiah’s humiliation and sufferings set forth—He makes his soul an offering for sin and makes intercession for transgressors—Compare <a href="mosiah/14">Mosiah 14</a>.
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Who</span> hath <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 12: 38; Rom. 10: 16; Mosiah 14: 1 (1-12).">believed</a> our report?  and to whom is the arm of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> revealed?
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For he shall grow up before him as a tender <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 110: 2.">plant</a>, and as a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rev. 22: 16.">root</a> out of a <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Condescension of.">dry</a> ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, <i>there is </i>no <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/2d" mark="d" type="P" title="HEB it is not for his appearance.">beauty</a> that we should desire him.
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He is <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ps. 22: 6; Mark 9: 12; 1 Pet. 2: 23 (13-25); TG Malice.">despised</a> and rejected of men; a man of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sorrow.">sorrows</a>, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were <i>our</i> faces from him; he was despised, and we <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/3c" mark="c" type="C" title="Matt. 9: 11 (10-13); John 1: 10; TG Respect.">esteemed</a> him not.
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&#182; Surely he hath <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 6; Philip. 2: 7 (5-8).">borne</a> our <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Compassion; TG Jesus Christ, Redeemer.">griefs</a>, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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But he <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Mission of; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about; TG Salvation, Plan of.">wounded</a> for our <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/5b" mark="b" type="C" title="Rom. 4: 25; TG Redemption; TG Transgression.">transgressions</a>, <i>he was</i> bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace <i>was</i> upon him; and with his <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Pet. 2: 24 (24-25).">stripes</a> we are <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/5d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Remission of Sins.">healed</a>.
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All we like <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sheep.">sheep</a> have gone <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 21: 16; 2 Pet. 2: 15 (12-15).">astray</a>; we have turned every one to his <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/6c" mark="c" type="C" title="2 Ne. 12: 5; D&C 1: 16; TG Selfishness.">own</a> way; and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath laid on him the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/6d" mark="d" type="C" title="2 Cor. 5: 21; TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through; TG Sin.">iniquity</a> of us all.
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He was <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Oppression.">oppressed</a>, and he was <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Affliction.">afflicted</a>, yet he <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/7c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mark 14: 61; Mark 15: 3 (2-14).">opened</a> not his mouth: he is brought as a <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/7d" mark="d" type="C" title="Gen. 22: 8 (8-14); Jer. 11: 19; Mosiah 14: 7 (6-8); D&C 135: 4; TG Jesus Christ, Lamb of God; TG Jesus Christ, Trials of.">lamb</a> to the <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/53/7e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Persecution.">slaughter</a>, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
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He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 15: 10.">generation</a>?  for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Remission of Sins; TG Transgression.">transgression</a> of my people was he stricken.
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And he made his grave with the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 23: 32 (32-33).">wicked</a>, and with the rich in his <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Death of.">death</a>; <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/9c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR although.">because</a> he had done no <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/9d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Pet. 2: 22.">violence</a>, neither <i>was any</i> <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/53/9e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Deceit; TG Guile; TG Honesty.">deceit</a> in his mouth.
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&#182; Yet it pleased the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 3: 15.">bruise</a> him; he hath put <i>him</i> to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Self-sacrifice.">offering</a> for sin, he shall see <i>his</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/10c" mark="c" type="C" title="Mosiah 15: 10 (5-13); TG Sons and Daughters of God.">seed</a>, he shall prolong <i>his</i> days, and the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/10d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Pleasure.">pleasure</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall prosper in his hand.
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He shall see of the travail of his soul, <i>and</i> shall be satisfied: by his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> shall my righteous <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Servants.">servant</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Justification.">justify</a> many; for he shall <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/53/11d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Accountability.">bear</a> their iniquities.
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Therefore will I divide him <i>a portion</i> with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/53/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Crucifixion of; TG Jesus Christ, Death of; TG Martyrdom.">death</a>: and he was numbered with the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/53/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mark 15: 28; Luke 22: 37.">transgressors</a>; and he bare the sin of many, and made <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/53/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Rom. 8: 34.">intercession</a> for the transgressors.
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